The Cultural Construction of Gender and Representation of Identity in Soaps and Music Videos

Soaps but more importantly music videos can be said to interrogate the cultural construction of gender and representations of identity. The video suggests a set of images to the viewer and usually these are a blurring of gender and identity. Music videos predicate on the representation of female gender experience. The two interrelated sign systems- access signs and discovery signs- will be discussed. Music clips that will be focused on are Madonna's 'Burning Up', 'Express …

…attempt to challenge gender or identities. No experimenting with the two ideas, making the music videos pointless as they do not raise any notions. From this essay, it is evident to see how music video can play with the idea of gender and identity. Soaps do not do it as much as music video. Music videos are always pushing the limits on how far they can cross over into each one. Madonna is famous for